Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-15
A Genuine Son Of the Soil Ex-
plains the Present and
Reviews the Past.
POURING A FLOOD or SUNSHINE UPON
THE lcE-5oUND HOSPITALITY OF
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
Eloquent Tributes to Abraham Lincoln
the Confederate Soldiers Living
and Dead, and the Restored
Union OF the States.
"a DIXIE LAD IN YANKEELAND.
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new YORK. lie was received with
great cordially, and ended amid
storm Of enthusiasm. The Tribune's
report says Mr.. Grady's glowing
tribute to Abraham Lincoln brought
every man to his feet His graphic de-
scrlption OF the defeated reaurning
Confederate soldier was we'll received,
and his reference to the contentment OF
the Southern negro with his employers
made good impression. At the close
OF his speech the band played Way
Down South in Dixie, and the entire
company rose to their feet and gave
three cheers for Mr.. Grady, and three
wore Tor the Empire State of the
South"
We reproduce below the salient pas
sages Of Mr.. Grdv's speech:
"TheSe was South of secession and
slavery-,Ahat South is dead. There is
South OF union and freedom That
South is living, breathing, growing
every honr." These words. delivered
from the lips OF Benjamin H. Hill, in
1866, make my text for tonight.
PURITAN AND CAVALIER HERE TOGETHER
Pardon me one word, Mr.. President.
snoken for the purpose OF getting into
the volunaeg that 60 out annually
ireighteu WIN the rich eloquence Of
your >peakers-the fact that the Caval
Ter as we'll as the Puritan was on this
continent i'll its early days, and that he
was "up and able to be about"
Laughter have read your books
CarelulIy al.d lind no menuon of that
fact, which seems to me important for
preserving sort of OF historical
equilibrium.
With the Cavalier once established as
fact In your charming little books,
shall let him work out his own salvation,
as he has always done with engaging
gallantry, and we will hold no contro-
versy as to his merits. Why sh ould
we? Neither Puritan nor Cavalier
long survived as such. The virtues and
traditions of both happily still live for
the inspiration of their song and the
saving OF the old fashion. Applause
But both Puritan and Cavalier were
lost in the storm Of their revolution,
and the American citizen, supplauting
both and stronger than either, took
possession of the Republic bought by
their common blood and fashioned in
wisdom, and charged himself with
teaching the voice of the people as the
voice of God. Applause. Great
types like valuable plants are slow to
flower and fruit. But from the union
of these colonists, from the straighten-
ing of their purposes and the crossing
OF their blood, perfecting through a
century, came he who stands as the first
typical American, the first who COM
pretended within himself all the
strength and gentleness, all the majesty
and grace of this republic-Abraham
Lincoln. Loud and long continued
applause. He was the sum Of Puritan
and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature
were fused the virtues of both, and in
the depths OF his great soul the faults of
both wore lost Renewed applause.
He was greater than Puritan, greater
than Cavalier, in that he was American
renewed applause, and that IN his
homely form where first gathered the
vast and thrilling forces Of this ideal
Government, charging it with such tre-
mendous meaning and so elevating it
above human suffering that martyrdom
though UNANIMOUSLY aimed, came as a
fitting crown to life consecated from
its cradle to human liberty. Loud
and prolonged cheering Let us, each
cherlshing his traditions and honoring
his fathers, build with reverent hands
to the type of this simple but sublime
life, in which all types are honored, and
in the common glory which we shall
win as Americans there will be plenty
and to spare for your foreiathers and
for mine. Renewed cheering.
WHAT THE NEW SOUTH MEANS.
In speaking to the toast with which
you have honored me accept the term
"The New South" as in no sense
disparaging to the Old. Dear to me
sir, are the home of my childhood and
the traditions ofmy people. There is q
New South, not through protest against
the Old, but because of new conditions
new adjustments and, if you please, new
ideas and aspirations. 1t is to this thai
l address myself. ask you, gentle
men, to picture if you can the loUt-sort
soldier, who, buttoning up in his faded
gray jacket the parole which was taken
testimony to his children OF his fidelity
and faith, turned his face southwark
from Appomattox In April, 1865
Think of him as ragged halfstarved
heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want anc
wounds, having fought to exhaustion
he surrenders his gun, wrings the
hands of his comrades, and, lifting hi,
tear-stained and pallid face for the las
time TO the graves that dot the ole
Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap ovel
his brow and begins the slow and pain
full Journey. What does he ind-le
me ask you, who went to your homes
eager to find all the welcome you haC
Justly earned, full payment for YOU
four years sacritice--what does he fine
when he reached the home he left fou
wears heforeg He finds his house il
ruins his farm devastated, his sllvei
freed. his stock killed, his barns empty
mis- trade destroyed. his money worth
less. his social system, feudal IN IL
macniflcence, swept away, his people
without law or legal status, bis com
rades slain and the burdens Of other
heavy on his shoulders. Crushed b,
l.